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Estimating the Effects of Federal Policies Targeting Obesity: Challenges and Research Needs
October 26, 2015CBO concludes that existing evidence does not indicate that certain policies to treat obesity would significantly reduce federal spending. Additional well-designed studies on the effects of such policies would be useful for CBO’s analysis.
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CBO’s Analysis of the Budgetary Impact of Policies That Could Improve People’s Health
December 3, 2013Given the high degree of interest in the relationship between people’s health and the federal budget, this post recaps some highlights from CBO’s report titled Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget.
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Raising the Excise Tax on Cigarettes: Effects on Health and the Federal Budget
June 13, 2012CBO has analyzed the impact of a hypothetical increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes to demonstrate the complex links between policies that aim to improve health and effects on the federal budget.